Cammie McGovern Quotes

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.